wArgOd wrote:
what you don't see is how i am not dead in the water when i have 200+ players.
I think this and any box would crack and creak under this sort of load should many of the servers get to capacity. Tweaking services & settings, etc. is fine but it doesn't automatically offer you 4 fold the performance.
You have 50 slots being used and your CPU shows 50%. 50 out of 358. So you're saying you can get 308 more slots out of the 50% that's left from your CPU? No wAr, you can't.
Also, regarding your 250,000 player connections per month. I have a 12 player Iceworld server that logged 40,000 player connections in Feb this year (it's not packed 24/7). If I had four of these servers that's 120k connections. If they were 24 player instead of 12, then that would be about 240k per month. Now I am fairly confident any modern dual proc machine could handle four busy 24 player servers. If all your servers were even a little busy you should really be seeing more like 1 *million+* player connections per month. You're box isn't doing anything many other servers aren't doing, other than running a bunch of empty servers as well.
So by your own numbers, this really does make sense. I just think it's not the big deal everyone thinks it is. I mentioned before, you can have 100 servers running on one box. It doesn't mean anything if they all sit idle. What doesn't make sense is your claim that this will handle 200 slots, let alone the 358 you have available. I am waiting for that screen shot.
P.S. Don't cuss at me. I only disagree.
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